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  • Bagged

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    Am in the eye of the storm on teh novel (aka BROKEN). Have just finished the BIGGEST edit so far, but I know it’s not the last. So I’m trying to relax & giving myself a few days off writing entirely. The effect of not-writing is to make me feel stressed & — according to…

  • Covered

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    Getting plenty of covers lately for the upcoming stories: In Sprawl (ed. Alisa Krasnostein, cover Amanda Rainey) you’ll find my story No Going Home. In Baggage (ed. Gillian Polack, cover Andrew McKiernan) I have the story Home Turf. (I should point out the ‘home’ theme you might see happening above is on purpose, & is…

  • 25 May: Towel Day

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    There are few drawbacks to living ‘in the future’ (i.e. in a city which is 10 hrs in advance of GMT), but one of them is not realising until reading it on BoingBoing that today was (or, is, for some of you) Towel Day, in honour of the great, late Douglas Adams. I always figured…

  • She’s heee-re

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    Yes, she arrived safely in the PO Box last week, and she’s gorgeous: She sure could do with a sandwich, though. The camera batteries died before I could work out how to re-dress her (not that the scythe & the horned cape aren’t resplendent), but rest assured it’s a-coming! In other news, very chuffed to…

  • Paper Art

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    In honour of a lovely weekend (spent partly at the fantastic Finders Keepers Markets in Sydney), I present to you Anna-Wili Highfield’s fabulous paper art. Plenty of art at the Finders Keepers Market, much of it wearable. I found pressed metal is in, & so are teapots. I bought some $6 origami flowers & a…

  • What I’ve been reading

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    Yes, I actually have blogging time today! Because I am home sick. It is a bittersweet kind of deal, eh? Lately I’ve been working full-time, alas, but one of the silver linings of full-time work (apart from cold hard cash) is commuting. But only because commuting grants reading time. Here’s some of what I’ve been…

  • What I’ve been doing

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    Shockingly beautiful day in Sydney today. Really. From the workday window it was all rippling blue loveliness and appalling picture-perfectness. It really ticked me off. Speaking of. Lately I’ve been busy working full time and writing. The full-time work — though not to be in any way encouraged (whoever thought 5 days/week was a good…

  • Ah, the humanity

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    Chuffed to hear my story, Six Suicides, one of the newbies in A Book of Endings, has scored an Australian Shadows Award for best short fiction! Says judge Bill Congreve, “I eventually chose “Six Suicides” because of its character, style, structure and simple humanity.” Aw, shucks! Finally someone notices I have some humanity. See? It’s…

  • In which, frankly, I rant about Camus

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    I’ve been meaning to read Albert Camus’ THE OUTSIDER since I was fifteen. Which sounds more dramatic than it is. A friend of mine with a kinda photographic memory for narrative once sat on my floor — when we were 15 — and told me the story of the outsider. A man, she said, who…

  • It’s my birthday!

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    I love birthdays. Not as much as I used to, though. As I said to one friend this morning, ‘Nowdays the gifts are like a kind of compensation.’ On the bright side, I totally scored on the presents!